Fifteen-year olds Austin Schwab and Tyler Plack co-founded Reserverr, a website that automatically books reservations for free. “We like to think of Reserverr as a calendar on steroids,” Schwab tells me. At first, the simple site looks like iCal (which you can import, if you want) in a web browser, with standard appointment creating capabilities....
iPads are making their way into the cockpit, doctors’ offices, the pulpit, coffee shops and more. On Tuesday, cloud-based cash register service Revel Systems is adding another location to the list: the grocery store. The San Francisco-based company has outfitted 400 fast-food chains, cafes and retail stores with its iPad point-of-sale system, but is...
More than 2 million lines of software code drove NASA’s successful Rover Curiosity landing on Mars. And, for the last two years, every single line was analyzed and scrubbed by static analysis products from Coverity, Grammatech, Semmle, and Uno. Engineers at NASA’s Jet Propulsion Laboratory used all of the aforementioned products plus a GCC compiler and a...
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The summer of discontent — well, that’s what it seems to be from the perspective of the not-so-new web darlings — might be coming to an end, but months (perhaps years) of misery awaits these erstwhile rocket ships. The news reports of late have reserved particular vitriol for Groupon, the company that has seen its...
With the announcement of its new API changes, Twitter did what it felt to be the absolute best thing for the vast majority of its users and for its future as a business. It swung the axe to prepare for its growth from hundreds of millions of users to billions of users. But it...
Apple and Samsung are presenting their closing arguments today in one of the biggest U.S. tech trials in history. As the ball heads over to the jury’s court, it has become painfully obvious over this past month just how complex this case is. The case involves more than a dozen different patents, more than...
Schoology, a collaborative learning platform and competitor to services like Blackboard, Moodle and Edmodo, recently passed the 1M user milestone and is today launching an internal app store based on its 2 month old API. In case you haven’t heard of Schoology before, here’s an easy way to understand it: If Yammer is Facebook for the enterprise, then Schoology is...
The Norwegian Data Protection Bureau has declared that Google Analytics is not in accordance with the law. They justify themselves by referring to a 2008 European Directive that demonstrates once again the ignorance of Eurocrats — even though Norway is not a member state of the European Union. Google will have to deeply alter its...
A new study conducted by ResearchBods for O2 shows that the digital skills of young people are going unused as many still face unemployment. According to O2, the unused digital skills sitting within the community of one million unemployed young people is estimated by UK businesses to be worth £6.7 billion ($10.5bn). O2 says that...